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  1. Re:Who woulda thunk it? on China's New Craze: E-bikes · · Score: 1

    There is nothing insightful about that post, it's just ignorant.

    Wrong. There's one right thing in the post: human power is indeed greener than batteries.

    And is also good for the health of the population.
    Not that I think that it's better for everybody, and the e-bikes are bad. They're not.

  2. Re:"su" accounts on How Would You Distribute Root Access? · · Score: 1

    yes, i just tried before writing that.
    mta is qmail here.

  3. Re:"su" accounts on How Would You Distribute Root Access? · · Score: 1

    email address is case insensitive, it's defined like that in the protocol specification.
    mail sent to Menscher will reach menscher.

  4. Re:"su" accounts on How Would You Distribute Root Access? · · Score: 1

    Same here.
    We have a lot of admins at our server, but only two of them have the root passwd (but don't use it). Our naming convention here is to the same username with the first letter in upper case.

  5. Fruity Loops on Music Related Free and Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    Anyone knows a Linux program that looks like Fruity Loops?
    I had fun with Fruit Loops 3 once (made a song out of QuakeIIIArena sound samples), but when I tried to do the same with Linux I coundn't find a program I could understand (I'm not used to trackers).

  6. Re:I'd buy one.... on The Ultimate All-In-One Storage Solution · · Score: 1

    Not peta-files, but one peta-file only.
    The device has storage for only one peta-bytes.

  7. ffff on ExtremeTech Reviews Google's Gmail Beta · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st

  8. XKobo on Tough Love - Can A Game Be Too Hard? · · Score: 1

    XKobo is one of my favourites, and I still play it today (I'm in stage 242, and there are only 50 stages, they begin repeating after that. Not that I'm addicted or something.. :)
    The gameplay basically about dodging enemies in a two-way scrolling space, trying to destroy the bases. The level 6 and some later levels are very hard.

    There is a modern version in SDL, called Kobo Deluxe, but I still prefer the original. Beware!

  9. Re:Capitalizing on Personal Violation on Postal 2 Shares Pain In Direction Of Linux · · Score: 1

    In GTA3 (well I really played Vice City, but I think GTA3 is the same) you can enter do most anything to anybody, including entering a store and start jumping over the salesman head, and that will pass as normal, like nobody gives a shit. You can pass right in front a cop with a machine gun in your hand, and he will do nothing.

    That's a thing I liked from Postal2: if you enter a stranger's house, or a prohibited area of a commercial building the guys get angry at you. Just draw your weapon on the streets, if a cop sees you, he will came after you. Much more realistic.

  10. no swap here on Tuning Linux VM swapping · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have only 256MB of memory in my Linux box, and I use no swap at all.
    I run Mozilla, Gimp, Quake3Arena, etc, without a problem. I use Gkrellm to monitor the system, and I see the memory meter rarely goes above the middle.
    But I don't run KDE nor Gnome, just Fluxbox.

    The old rule of swap size = 2 times memory size is stupid. You just have to consider how much memory the sistem is likely to require at max load, and also how much swap it makes sense to have. For example, it's insane to have 1GB swap on a 128MB machine, cause if it's to use all that swap, sure it will be trashing and slow as hell. Or slower.

  11. Re:Sometimes I doubt... on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 1

    Nuclear Weapons in the wrong hands might be a reality pretty soon.

    So you think the nuclear weapons used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was in the right hands?

    --
    Say no to drugs, but be polite: say "No, thanks."

  12. Re:Handy ad fighting URLs on New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup Blockers · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to inform you that you can install the any plugin or extension in under your home directory.
    Flashblock is great because it gives the option to watch the flash. Sometimes you want it, sometimes the content is in flash. It replaces the flash with a button, just click it and it loads the flash and plays it.
    Adblock is also great because of the flexibility to tell it what to block.

  13. Re:If spiders are so tough on Hairy Adhesives · · Score: 1

    Funny, I misread that as "why can my cat eat them..."

  14. Re:"standing on the ceiling" on Hairy Adhesives · · Score: 1

    If you is attached to the ceiling, you would be hanging, but the spider just stands there.
    Just as you can say the condor can "stand" still on the sky, as oposed to "fly".

  15. both on NETI@Home to Examine Net's Strengths · · Score: 1

    They do not conflict.

    A SETI and NETI@home clients do not interfere in each other, as they do not consume the same resources.

    SETI just wants to eat all your idle CPU time, and little bandwith exchanging data and result.

    NETI is light on resources (at least they say so), should consume minimal (near 0%) cpu and very small bandwidth to report the data collected.

  16. Re:Equation Editor? on Where Can I find Sources for Learning LaTex? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It (more or less) works if you want to add one or two equetions on a text.
    Now go write a math text, or any other math/tech-related text with lots of expressions, and have a glimpse of how hell can be.

  17. Re:Don't know where to look? on Where Can I find Sources for Learning LaTex? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Now, seriously, back in the day when I learned LaTeX, the best sources were my friends, and the book The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX .

  18. Don't know where to look? on Where Can I find Sources for Learning LaTex? · · Score: 1

    Well, just search on google. =)

  19. Re:Gadget Wings! on Morphing Plane Wings for Efficient Flights · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ROTFL!

  20. root on Linux Desktop Security for New Users? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    don't blindly drop to root and install an unverified/unauthenticated RPM that you receive via email

    That would be nice to say to a home user.
    But on a work environment, why give the root password to the (non-linux-experienced) users in the first place?

  21. Blogado on Best Weblogs for Personal Websites? · · Score: 1


    A friend of mine, Victor Bogado, just wrote his own blog engine, check it out!.

    Here is his blog (in Brazilian Portuguese), as an example.

  22. Re:Double Grrr on Linux Spreads its Wings · · Score: 1

    Yes, I do.
    Well, I think so. Other sites with flash work ok.
    Btw, I got the flashblock extension installed too.
    (It replaces the flash with a button, you hit the button and it loads the flash.) I'll try w/o it again..
    But the browser crashes even before it displays the page.

  23. Re:Double Grrr on Linux Spreads its Wings · · Score: 1

    This link crashes my Firefox 0.8

  24. Re:Beta Results on Researchers Develop 3-D Search Engine · · Score: 1

    That's because it has 'Y-ME' on the title and on the domain name http://www.y-me.org/

  25. Re:one solution is... on The Average PC is Infested with Spyware · · Score: 1

    That's cause Google rates better pages that have lot's of external links to them.